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n Season Finale
4ggies
By GARY SHERER
The Aggie basketball team
ds its season tonight when they
&et Texas Christian at Fort
orth’s Daniel Meyer Field
>use.
K
DICK RECTOR
le Aggie captain from Du-
' will be playing his last
me for the Aggies to-
ght at Fort Worth.
Icindor Named
| layer Of Year
, jh Runaway Vote
F WoS ACCEDES ^ — AU-
lerica basketball star Lew
cindor of UCLA generally is
serious, solemn young man who
isn’t even smile too readily.
But the towering sophomore,
Hasted Wednesday walking
>m one class to another on the
k .st Bruin campus, beamed
■ oadly when advised he had
Y ;n named college Basketball
lyer of the Year in the annual
il conducted by The Associated
ess.
7Q,‘Who else?” was the reaction
F 7' the voters when the ballots
re counted and announced in
:w York.
[-/jA native of New York and the
Jjlsst sought after athlete in
ars when he selected UCLA
I (U his educational base. Alcindor
-0 /2eived 215 of 290 votes cast.
A distant second, with 49 votes,
4A is Jim Walker of Providence.
7/lestley Unseld of Louisville, was
ird with eight. Clem Haskins,
jestern Kentucky; Ron Widby,
1 annessee, and Bob Lloyd, Rut-
| irs, tied for fourth with four
I'tes each.
I “I’m very pleased. I hope I
serve this honor,” said Alcin-
►rj choosing his words carefully,
ifter all, there are a lot of other
tstanding players in the coun-
y.
“There may be some more de-
rving but, of course, I would
■t know about that.”
“We have an undefeated sea-
n here at UCLA so far and I’m
ping we can go all the way
w. I’m really looking forward
the NCAA playoffs.”
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ATTENTION
Corps Sophomores
and Juniors
icture schedule for Aggie-
nd ’67 to be taken at the
niversity Studio in North
ate.
i^eb. 27 to March 4 - M-R
larch 6 to March 11 - S-Z
■ATTENTION
Civilian Sophomores
and Juniors
ictures scheduled for 1967
.ggieland to be taken at
University Studio.
Feb. 27 to March 4 - U-Z
and make-ups
At Fort Worth
em Methodist Tuesday night, the
Aggies will be trying for at least
one victory on the road, as they
have lost all their road tests up
to tonight.
TCU is also entering the game
following a loss. The Horned
Frogs fell to Texas Tuesday
night, 88-79.
The Frogs are 7-6 in league
play and are 10-14 for the sea
son. TCU was picked as one of
the contenders for the Southwest
Conference title, but the Frogs
failed to get a winning streak go
ing and now are tied for third
with Baylor.
TCU’S DEFENSE has not been
the best this year, but they are
the highest - scoring team in the
SWC. Mickey McCarty and
Wayne Kreis are the two leading
scorers for the Frog five.
McCarty, 6-5 junior from Pas
adena, has a 16.4 mark for SWC
games and is 15.2 for the season.
Kreis, 5-11 senior from Pampa, is
at 15 a game for the conference
and has a 14.1 average overall.
Jess Evans and James Cash
have provided most of the scoring
support for the Frog scoring lead
ers.
THE AGGIES have been strong
off the boards this year and
have an edge in rebounds in their
conference games. They will find
the Frogs hard to beat in this
department, as TCU leads the
SWC in rebounding and in one
game (against Rice) they pulled
down an unbelievable total of 74.
In that game, Cash personally
accounted for 20 rebounds.
After Tuesday night’s game
with SMU, the Aggies’ scoring
statistics are about the same.
Billy Bob Barnett is now the
leading scorer in SWC games
with a 13 point average. Sonny
Benefield, John Underwood and
Ronnie Peret are also averaging
in double figures for league play.
PERET STILL is the leading
season scorer, his 275 points give
him a 12 point average overall.
Barnett is runner-up for the sea
son with an 1.6 norm.
The Aggies were plagued Tues
day night by poor shooting. This
has been a nemisis all year for
the Maroon and White. TCU
however has the lowest field goal
percentage in the league, with
the Aggies just doing a little bet
ter at next to last. The poor
field-goal shooting by the two
teams is a good indication why
they are one-two in the rebound
category.
TCU, however, has a little more
varsity experience going for them
and they will undoubtedly be fav
ored.
THE HORNED FROGS visited
College Station in January and
Aggie fans will remember that
heartbreaker. The Frogs nipped
the Aggies 67-64 in a game that
saw the Aggies blow a six point
lead in the final minutes.
The Aggies, now 5-8 in SWC
play, are in fifth place. SMU, of
course, has clinched the title and
leads the league with an 11-2 rec
ord. Texas is second at 8-5. TCU
and Baylor are third. Texas Tech,
at 6-7, is fourth. Rice and Ark
ansas, at 4-9, are below the Ag
gies.
Aggie Coach Shelby Metcalf
will probably go with Benefield,
Barnett, Peret, Myatt and either
Underwood or Dick Rector in the
starting lineup.
For Rector, tonight’s game will
be his last in an Aggie uniform.
Though not a starter this season,
the Aggie captain has performed
well and has added his leadership
to the team.
The game will begin at 8 p.m.
and will be broadcast back to Col
lege Station by KORA.
FOUL!
Ronnie Peret (44) is fouled by SMU’s John Higgenbotham
(35) during Tuesday night’s game with the Mustangs.
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BLOCKED SHOT
Billy Bob Barnett (40) has his shot blocked by Bob Begert
(11) of SMU in Tuesday night’s basketball action. Other’s
pictured are SMU’s Charles Beasley (23) and Lynn Phil
lips (25).
Fish Close Out The Season
THE BATTALION
Thursday, March 2, 1967 College Station, Texas Page 7
Aggie Nine Begins
Season With Win
By JERRY GRISHAM
Knocked out of a share in the
Southwest Conference freshman
basketball championship, the Fish
cagers can still give Coach Jim
Culpepper the best season in the
three years he has been at the
helm.
In tonight’s game in Fort
Worth, an Aggie victory over the
Texas Christian Wogs in the last
game of the season would give
the Fish a season record of 8-4.
Last year’s freshman squad had a
season mark of 7-5, with a con
ference record of 5-3.
The year before, Culpepper’s
first year as coach, the Fish had
a record of 6-6 for the season and
5-3 for the conference. The cur
rent Fish team has a conference
record of 5-2.
In their first meeting of the
season, the Fish edged the Wogs
67-63. In that game the Fish
shot poorer than in any other
game during the season. The
Wog defense held the Fish to six
field goals out of 31 attempts in
the first half for a 19.4 per cent
and held them to a final overall
shooting percentage of 34.5.
The Aggies’ leading rebounder
during the year, Mike Hazel, will
still be on the sidelines with an
eye injury.
By GARY SHERER
The Aggie Baseball team open
ed its ’67 season on a happy note
Wednesday afternoon at Travis
Park.
Banging out 17 hits, including
two home runs, the Maroon and
White nine ran over St. Edward’s
University of Austin, 18-5.
Aggie catcher Joe Staples put
the Aggies ahead -with a 325-foot
round-tripper in the second inn
ing.
The Hilltoppers from Austin
came right back and jumped on
starting pitcher Bob Arnold and
tallied four times in the top of
the third.
Arnold, in the first two innings,
had set St. Edward’s down with
out giving up a hit or run. He
should have escaped in the third
stanza, but an Aggie error opened
the door for Mike Tolski’s boom
ing double which caused the most
damage as the Hilltoppers scored
three unearned runs.
The Aggies brought it back to
4-2 when, after Staples walked in
the fourth inning, successive sin
gles by Bob Long and Pete Maida
brought the Aggie catcher home.
Bob Sanders, who came in to
pitch for the Aggies in the fourth
inning, struck out the side in the
fifth, but two singles pushed over
a tally for St. Edward’s. Sanders,
junior from Houston, struck out
six in his three-inning stint.
Scoring three runs in the bot
tom of the fifth, the Maroon and
White deadlocked the game at 5-
5. In the burst, Aggie second-
baseman Dick Backest led off
with a sharp single up the mid
dle. The St. Edward’s center-
fielder let the ball go through
his legs and Backest legged it all
the way home.
Mike Arrington, Maroon and
White shortstop, followed Back-
est’s lead and also made a trip
around the bases. Arrington did
not have to run as fast though,
his hit cleared the left field wall
for the Aggies’ second four-bag
ger of the game.
The tying run was scored when,
after a walk and a single by
Staples, Long lofted a high drive
to deep center, scoring Rick
Schwartz from third after the
catch of the fly ball.
St. Edward’s scoring for the
day was over at the close of their
half of the fifth. After the Ag
gies tied it up in the fifth, it was
only the beginning for them.
Exploding for two runs in the
sixth, three in the seventh and,
to celebrate their last at-bat of
the day, the Maroon and White
sent 13 batters to the plate in
the eighth inning and scored
eight runs on seven hits.
The onslaught was topped by
ringing doubles by Staples and
Pat Rozypal.
Every starter, with the excep
tion of first-baseman Chuck Ma-
litz, was in the hit column. Rozy
pal, transfer from Blinn JC, who
came in for Malitz in the sixth,
knocked in two runs to go with
his double.
Arrington was the offensive
leader, gathering four more hits,
in addition to his home run. The
senior from Freeport also knock
ed in three runs.
Lau Camilli, All-America and
All-Conference last year, con
tributed only one hit to the Aggie
attack, a run-scoring single in
the eighth.
The Aggies will again be in
action Friday afternoon at 3 p.m.
when they will host St. Mary’s of
San Antonio at Travis Park.
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